Tracking Zika
Catalogue Number: A173-037
Producer: Grand Angle Productions
Producers: Marconnet, Catherine
Directors: Pérez, Jean-Louis
Producing Agencies: Grand Angle Productions & Archipel Productions
Subject: Canadian World Studies, Current Events, Documentary, Health and Medicine, History, Science, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: France
Copyright Year: 2017
Running Time: 53:45
Zika, a cute little name of a forest in Uganda has become synonymous with a mosquito-born flavivirus that was identified there in 1947. Virtually forgotten until 2013 when an outbreak of 10 000 cases was reported in French Polyniesia, the virus has taken a worldwide spotlight. In October 2015, Brazil reported an association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly. The film travels to French Polynesia into the heart of the difficult combat against the Zika virus.
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